In The Media Archive

California Lawmakers Want To Ban Bad Default Passwords
Source: Forbes.com
These days there are dozens of different kinds of malware that constantly scour the Internet looking for machines with weak security that can be infected and turned into tools of cybercrime.
10/15/2018

How Zinc Batteries Could Change Energy Storage
Source: The New York Times
Making the batteries rechargeable and lowering their cost are seen as important advances in enabling the electric grid to depend on power from renewable sources.
10/15/2018

MIT names 35 top young innovators in technology
Source: Boston Herald
MIT Technology Review yesterday announced its annual list of Innovators Under 35, a Who’s Who of some of the most cutting-edge technologists whose innovations are poised to transform our world.
06/28/2018

Here Are The Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies For 2018
Source: Forbes
MIT Technology Review unveils its breakthrough technology list for 2018 – a rundown of 10 awe-inspiring scientific and technological advances that have the potential to change our lives in dramatic ways.
02/21/2018

To Grow Stronger, China Has to Grow More Slowly
Source: The New York Times
An article in the M.I.T. Technology Review said the future of artificial intelligence is taking shape in China and urges the West to copy rather than fear this “revolution.”
10/30/2017

How Smartphones Are Draining Our Brain Power
Source: WBUR: On Point
AUDIO: MIT Technology Review’s Biomedicine Editor, Antonio Regalado has looked a lot at brain implant technology and its promise or its distance from us right now.
10/27/2017

Harder, Better, Faster, CRISPR
Source: WBUR: Radio Open Source
AUDIO: Antonio Regalado is a key journalist on the CRISPR beat, a minute-to-minute reporter online for MIT Technology Review. Among the levels of his CRISPR coverage: the science, the people who do it, the motivations and the money.
08/21/2017

Scientists edit human embryos for first time in US
Source: CNN
MIT Technology Review published on Wednesday a news report about the first-known experiment to create genetically modified human embryos in the United States using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR.
07/31/2017

Human Embryos ‘Edited’ in U.S. For First Time
Source: NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
VIDEO: According to MIT Technology Review which first reported on the breakthrough, the scientists used a technique called CRISPR.
07/28/2017

Sex Robots, Climate Hacking, And Other Taboo Technologies
Source: NPR - Morning Edition
Antonio Regalado, biotech editor and reporter for the MIT Technology Review, joined WGBH’s Morning Edition host Bob Seay for a conversation about their list of the top taboo technologies.
03/21/2017

‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
Source: The Atlantic
Writing at the MIT Technology Review, the Stanford computer scientist Jerry Kaplan makes a similar argument: AI is a fable “cobbled together from a grab bag of disparate tools and techniques.”
03/20/2017

Is there such a thing as good eugenics?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Jeff Carroll, a Western Washington University neuroscientist who inherited the mutation for Huntington’s disease — which can cause people to lose bodily control and slowly go mad, like his mother did — has been outspoken in favor. “I am saying, please, please do mess with our DNA,” he told the MIT Technology Review.
03/20/2017

There is a huge hole in Trump’s promise to bring back US manufacturing jobs
Source: Business Insider
“The fact that the U.S. manufacturing sector has been succeeding by many measures in recent years makes Trump’s promises seem like false dreams,” Mark Muro, a senior fellow and the director of policy at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote in MIT Technology Review. “No one should be under the illusion that millions of manufacturing jobs are coming back to America.”
03/20/2017

It began with a BlackBerry
Source: Marketplace Tech
When Obama was first sworn in, some were worried about allowing him to keep his BlackBerry. Eight years later, he’s cemented his status as a pretty tech-forward president. As his second term ends, we’ll look back at the role of technology in his administration.
01/18/2017

Artificial Intelligence And The King Midas Problem
Source: The Huffington Post
[Stuart Russell, a renowned AI researcher] recently co-authored a rebuttal to an article in the MIT Technology Review, which claimed that real AI scientists weren’t worried about the existential threat of AI.
12/21/2016

Google is spinning its self-driving car project out into its own company
Source: Quartz
Christopher Hart, the chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board, recently expressed concerns to MIT Technology Review about technology ever being able to entirely remove human drivers as Waymo is intending to do, especially because of the ethical quandaries that these robot cars will likely find themselves in.
12/21/2016

Red Flags Are Rising For Apple's Stock
Source: Forbes
Apple’s innovation machine seems to be slowing down. Last year, Apple failed to make it to the MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies.
12/09/2016

Selfie Death Causes Revealed in New Study
Source: Teen Vogue
As the MIT Technology Review points out, 39 people died while taking a selfie in 2015, and since August 2016, 73 people died while taking a selfie.
12/09/2016

Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum
Source: The New Yorker
As Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, told MIT Technology Review, “Productivity is at record levels, innovation has never been faster, and yet at the same time, we have a falling median income and we have fewer jobs. People are falling behind because technology is advancing so fast and our skills and organizations aren’t keeping up.” It is, he said, “the great paradox of our era.”
12/09/2016

Meet the Teenagers Who Found Their Own Startups
Source: Harvard Business Review
At the age of 19 [Javier Agüera, co-inventor of the first Android-powered handset] already had three startups behind him and was considered by MIT Technology Review one of the Innovators Under 35 in Spain.
12/09/2016

Who Owns the Biggest Biotech Discovery of the Century?
Source: Wall Street Daily
The dispute will almost certainly head to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. So a final determination of who owns what MIT Technology Review dubbed “the biggest biotech discovery of the century” is many months — if not years — in the future.
12/09/2016

Robots and AI won't cost you your job anytime soon
Source: CIO
The growth of artificial intelligence was a hot topic at this year’s MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference, but if you’re concerned that robots are about you take your job, rest easy. They aren’t.
12/09/2016

Red Flags Are Rising For Apple's Stock
Source: Forbes
Apple’s innovation machine seems to be slowing down. Last year, Apple failed to make it to the MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies.
12/09/2016

Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble
Source: Time
A 2013 article in the MIT Technology Review laid out Wikipedia’s alleged crisis in stark terms.
01/15/2016

Inside the weird world of cryonics
Source: Financial Times
In an article in MIT Technology Review this year, McGill University neuroscientist Michael Hendricks wrote that any suggestion that cryonics could bring a person back to life was “simply snake oil”.
12/21/2015

Crash Test Dummies Going Virtual
Source: Discovery News
According to this interesting report over at MIT Technology Review, researchers and automakers are gradually moving toward a new kind of safety test device system that focuses on computer simulations and virtual test dummies.
12/08/2015

Tapping the Power of an Explosive Lake
Source: The Huffington Post
You can learn much more about Lake Kivu, its potential, and its risks from journalist Jonathan W. Rosen, whose fascinating in-depth tour of Lake Kivu for the MIT Technology Review includes an informative video.
12/01/2015

Taming the New Frontiers in Gene Editing
Source: Discover
“Evolution is no longer gradual or subject to chance,” said Antonio Regaldo in the MIT Technology Review. “It is immediate and under human control.”
11/18/2015

Implantable LEDs Could Block Pain Wirelessly
Source: Discovery News
Via MIT Technology Review: Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are covering new ground on both of these fronts by implanting tiny LEDs under the skin to display where certain areas of the body are hurting.
11/18/2015

Third party tracking ‘still legal,’ according to FCC
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
MIT Technology Review notes, the “safety” line gets blurred is when third-party trackers, such as advertisers or analytics companies, start piecing together a profile of a user based on users' cookie data.
11/10/2015

How to search for videos using emoji
Source: The Telegraph
The team have developed Emoji2Video, an interface which returns YouTube videos in response to string of emoji characters, bypassing text entry altogether, MIT Technology Review reported.
10/28/2015